Early 1900s Movies

Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the...

Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property...

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The peculiarity of this waterfall, with its narrow funnel-shaped opening, from which, on to the jagged rocks the torrent dashes, is here portrayed in...

Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Distributed under the title of ‘Switzerland’ or ‘Playground of Europe’, the film consists of a collection of scenes filmed in...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A pioneering mountaineering film made by Frank Ormiston-Smith for the Warwick Trading Company in 1902. Ormiston-Smith himself led and filmed an...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

In 1901, Argentine naval officer José María Sobral joins Otto Nordenskjöld’s Swedish scientific expedition to Antarctica....

This film gives a fine panoramic view of this wonderful railway track through immense gorges and cuttings and snow baulks of from 15 to 20 feet high...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Austrian military detachment out for Ski practice, showing how the Ski may be used in crossing snow-covered and ice hardened surfaces with great...

Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the great novels of world literature. The documentary immerses itself in the very own cosmos,...

A curious incident which happens in early summer when the cattle are taken to the high pastures for three months.

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The goats of the Grimsel are almost as famous as the Hospice itself, and form a most attractive picture among the bleak and desolate surroundings.

1. Panoramic View from the Acropolis. A fine view of modern Athens. 2. Mar's Hill. Probable site of St. Paul preaching to the Athenians. 3. A View of...